Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-14
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GONG GOWN TO JERICHO.
The Rocky Read from Jerusalen1-PRtur-
esque Bedouin Guides-Grand View.

The Rocky Road from tTerusa1em-PRtur-
esque Bedouin Guides-Grand View.
The thieves hereabouts, namely tie Bed
ouins, are not all done away with yet At all
events, people going from jerusalem Dead
Stewards must be provided sith guards,
who, on the principle that it takes thief to
catch thief, ere also Bedouins. Picturesque
booking fellows, too, they ara, in their long,
two foot wide, striped in black ard white
ulster cloaks, and their silken, tasse Il head
gear, with a long, brass bound gan slung
across the back, big revolver in tie belt,
and carved Damascus sword swinging
jauntily from one side Picturesque indeed
your Bedouin is, as he moves along in never
so stately fashion on his Arabian horse,
vouchsafng once In a while to turn his
bronzed, black whiskered face around to see
how you are getting on. But of thieves we
saw none, though the shepherds along the
road glared meaningly once in a while. In
deed, news has just come of an intrepid Amer
lean proceeding alone to the Jordan having
an ugly encounter.
We read the expression Sdown to Jericho"
down indeed, from an altitude of $500 feet
above TO depth OF 1000 feet below You
pass around Olivet by the supposed triumphal
path of our Lord, and then i'll half an hours
experience with the meanest of stone heaps,
find yourself at Bethany, where Of course
they are ready to show you hut called "the
house Of Martha and Mary" while the tomb
Of Lazarus is as assuredly not lacking-in a
country where the slightest shreds Of not only
Scripture but tradition are made OF account
In the manufacture Of holy q places. Then
follows a siege of saddle work, one could
hardly cali it riding, Of going down into the
valleys by the stoniest OF roads, and Of
ascending of hills by the same sort It is
little consolation to bruised bones that it is
the brook Cherith at the valley of Achor that
you see. This up and down process, if well
kept up for six hours. brings one 10 a grand
view, namely that Of this wide plain through
which flows the Jordan to the Dead Sea lying
large and blue seemingly at our feet, and
bordered On the opposite shore by the steep
Nebo mountains, indistinct toward the south
from the mist which the remarkable evapora-
ton of water causes to form over the surface
of the lake. Over there, among those high
lands, is Moab, not q village, or even dwell
ing, in sight to break its vast monotony.
Behind that desolate shore and land of Moab
Is Arabia, and when ono thinks of the Inn
mense stretch of desert to where water in the
shape of the Persian gulf can breal. upon the
sight, this lack OF life seems not an uniting
Introduction
Slowly the caravan descends into the plain.
@Where IS JericEo?" says some one, hardly
thinking that the handful Of huts just beyond
the orange trees can be the modern represent
ative Of the proud old city whose walls be-
haved in such an unnatural way when the
intrepid joshua marched his forces against
them, and the priests blew their trumpets.
Still, q man whom God delegated to control
the sun and moon might we'll be left 20 take
care of city. Two hours away lies the Dead
Seattle city of Elijahs later life, the city
where Saul came to be made king, where Da-
vid returned from exile, the then "city of
palms" now not single one left-approach-
ing the water as near as possible, but no palm
city could be built on shores which were
blighted with salt.--E J. Baldwins Letter in
Cleveland Leader.